Codetel announced that telephone service in the East and Northeast has been restored. The largest Dominican telephone company said that areas of Cambita in San Cristóbal and La Victoria, National District are again connected. Service was also restored by Saturday in all hotels along the Punta Cana-Bavaro area as well as in Higüey, Nisibón and San Rafael del Yuna. In the Northeast, Samaná, Cabrera, Nagua, El Factor, Sánchez and Las Terrenas again enjoy telephone service. The most difficult repairs are still taking place in Monte Plata, Vicente Noble, Tamayo, Galván and in the provinces of Barahona and Baoruco, that while not hard hit by the hurricane itself, suffered subsequent downing of telephone lines due to the breaking of bridges by flooding rivers.
